xii, 204 p. : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Race, real estate, and uneven development : an introduction. Housing as a system of social stratification -- Race, racism, and racialization -- Metropolitan Kansas City : an overview -- Constructing a segregated metropolis -- The racialization of space : restrictive covenants and the origins of racial residential segregation. Great migration and the rise of the modern real estate industry -- Racial restrictive covenants and the real estate industry ; Role of community builders ; Role of homeowner associations -- Legacy of racial restrictive covenants -- Federal government, community builders, and the development of the modern mortgage system. Housing Act of 1934 and the creation of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) -- Community builders and the FHA -- Racial conflict and the defense of racial space -- Urban renewal, public housing, and downtown redevelopment. Housing program for slum clearance -- Local implementation and dislocating effects -- Explaining postwar urban redevelopment -- Building the Troost wall : school segregation, blockbusting, and the racial transition of the southeast area. Racial population change in southeast Kansas City, 1950-1975 -- School segregation and neighborhood racial transition -- Blockbusting and panic selling ; Role of the real estate board ; Reflections and experiences with blockbusting -- Legacy of school desegregation and blockbusting -- The struggle for fair housing. Fair housing and the conflict over "rights" -- Housing Act of 1968 and the Section 235 program ; Local implementation and segregative effects ; Neighborhood response and disinvestment -- Federal housing policy retrenchment in the post-civil rights era -- Fair housing in retrospect -- Conclusions. Race, housing, and the "new racism" -- Privatism, real estate, and the future of uneven development

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